How to remove NinjaLoc ransomware

About this threat

NinjaLoc ransomware ransomware is a piece of malware that’ll encrypt your files. Ransomware is categorized as a very severe infection and might lead you to permanently encoded files. Due to this, and the fact that infection happens quite easily, file encoding malware is considered to be a very dangerous threat. Infection may occur via spam emails, infected ads or bogus downloads. When it finished the encryption process, victims are asked to pay a specific amount of money, which would supposedly lead to file decryption. The amount of money you will be asked depends on the file encoding malicious program, the demands could be to pay $50 or a couple of thousands of dollars. Before you rush to pay, consider a few things. Do not forget these are cyber crooks you’re dealing with and they could just take your money providing nothing in return. It wouldn’t be shocking if you were left with undecrypted data, and there would be many more like you. This may easily happen again, so consider buying backup, instead of complying with the demands. While you’ll be presented with a lot of different options, it should not be difficult to find the best option for you. Delete NinjaLoc ransomware and then restore files if you had backup prior to infection. You’ll run into malware like this all over, and contamination is likely to occur again, so you have to be prepared for it. In order to keep a device safe, one must always be ready to run into possible threats, becoming informed about how to avoid them.

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How does file encoding malware spread

Data encrypting malware generally uses pretty basic methods to distribute, such as via unreliable downloads, corrupted ads and infected email attachments. However, that doesn’t mean more complex way will not be used by some ransomware.

It is possible you opened an infected email attachment, which is what permitted the ransomware to enter. The method includes developers attaching the ransomware infected file to an email, which gets sent to many people. Crooks could make those emails very convincing, commonly using topics like money and taxes, which is why we aren’t surprised that plenty of users open those attachments. When you’re dealing with unknown sender emails, be on the look out for certain signs that it could be harboring ransomware, such as mistakes in grammar, strong suggestion to open the attachment. If the sender was a company whose services you use, your name would be inserted automatically into the email they send you, and a general greeting wouldn’t be used. Amazon, PayPal and other known company names are oftentimes used as people know of them, thus are not afraid to open the emails. permitted the infection to get into your system. If you are someone who engages with ads while visiting weird pages, it’s not really shocking that your device is infected. And try to stick to legitimate download sources as frequently as possible, because otherwise you are putting your system in jeopardy. Sources like ads and pop-ups are notorious for being dangerous sources, so avoid downloading anything from them. If an application was needed to be updated, you would be notified via the application itself, not through your browser, and most update themselves anyway.

What does it do?

Infection leading to permanent file loss isn’t an impossible scenario, which is why a file encrypting malware is thought to be such a damaging infection. The process of encrypting your data take a very short time, so you may not even notice it. All encrypted files will have an extension attached to them. Strong encryption algorithms will be used to lock your data, which makes decoding files for free very hard or even impossible. A ransom note will then be dropped, which should explain what has occurred. The note will request that you buy a decryption utility to recover files, but paying would not be the wisest choice. By paying, you would be putting a lot of faith in cyber criminals, the people who are accountable for your file encryption in the first place. By paying, you would not be just risking losing your money, you would also be supporting their future projects. By giving into the requests, victims are making ransomware a progressively more profitable business, which is believed to have earned $1 billion in 2016, and that will attract many people to it. We advise you instead invest in some kind of backup, which would always be there if something happened to your files. In case of a similar infection again, you could just get rid of it without worrying about losing your data. Simply ignore the requests and terminate NinjaLoc ransomware. You can dodge these kinds of infections, if you know how they are distributed, so try to familiarize with its spread methods, at least the basics.

NinjaLoc ransomware elimination

The presence of anti-malware utility will be required to figure out if the infection is still present on the computer, and if it is, to get rid of it. If you’re reading this, chances are, you’re not the most experienced when it comes to computers, which means you should not try to uninstall NinjaLoc ransomware manually. A better choice would be using anti-malware software to do it for you. Those tools are created to detect and eliminate NinjaLoc ransomware, as well as similar threats. In case there is an issue, or you aren’t certain about where to start, you are welcome to use the below provided guidelines. The program is not, however, capable of helping in data recovery, it will only erase the threat from your computer. We ought to say, however, that in certain cases, a free decryptor may be developed by malicious software specialists, if the data encrypting malware is decryptable.

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b) Method 2. Using Windows Previous Versions to recover files

For this method to work, System Restore must have been enabled prior to infections.

Right-click on the file you want to recover.

Select Properties.

Go to the Previous Versions tab, select the version of the file you want, and click Restore.

c) Method 3. Using Shadow Explorer to recover files

Your operating system automatically creates shadow copies of your files so that you can recover files if your system crashed. It is possible to recover files this way after a ransomware attack, but some threats manage to delete the shadow copies. If you are lucky, you should be able to recover files via Shadow Explorer.

You need to download the Shadow Explorer program, which can be obtained from the official site, shadowexplorer.com.

Install and open it.

Select the disk where the files are located, choose the date, and when the folders with files appear, press Export.